‘Arrow’ TV Series Stars Talk About What We Can Expect

ARROW, starring Stephen Amell and Katie Cassidy, looks set for its premiere in the US in October and to celebrate there was a Q & A at Comic-Con this weekend, and we have a few highlights for you. We’ll get straight to the point (no pun intended) with Amell talking about Oliver Queen/The Green Arrow’s return to Starling City:

It’s really hard for him.  It’s one thing to have that first initial hug after you get away and it’s another thing to deal with people have a very different expectation of you. My sister’s 17 and I left her when she was 12. It’s going to be really challenging.

On using a bow and arrow:

…according to our archery coach, it has been portrayed poorly on television.  She never even taucht me how to aim.  We focused exclusively on form and and gripping the bow the right way and gripping the string the right way.

How he’d like the character to develop:

I’d like to see him come clean with a couple people close to him.  Not necessarily reveal what he’s doing, but the basis of the show is caring about the interactions with the people closest to him.  He did some bad things before he went away and he deserves his comeuppance a little bit and there are people who deserve to give it to him.  I’d like to see him get it…I think it’s most interesting when you see somebody get knocked down and they rise back up again.  Finally, I hope we’re able to draw the line with Oliver where he has to make decisions that everybody is not going to agree with.

Meanwhile his co-star Katie Cassidy who plays Dinah ‘Laurel’ Lance says this of her character:

I feel like at a really young age she sort of had to take care of her sister and her father.  She seems to have lost her mother at a young age and became a caretaker.  After taking on that role she wanted to become a lawyer and she tries to see the best in everyone… Oliver and her obviously had a pretty huge history and as angry in her heart as she has been at him, she does have it in her heart to forgive him, but has to go through the process to get there.

Her love interest Tommy Merlyn:

I think Tommy was there for her when Oliver disappeared…I think when they grew up together it was the three of them.  He was the best friend…she looked to him and he was there, he took advantage, but he was there.  He’ll never be Oliver to her, nobody will ever be Oliver but Oliver.

On her maybe being the Black Canary:

Katie wants to fight.  I think that she does get involved in the action story part of it.  As Oliver is out there plotting and fighting crime, she will become a part of it, but as far as becoming a super hero, I don’t know.

What has excited her in recording the pilot:

Just someone real, and grounded and centered.  For me, Laurel is almost angelic, if that makes sense.  She is just so pure and honest, and I’ve played so many bad girls in the past it’s nice to get to be able to play a character like this.

ARROW hasn’t currently been picked up by a UK broadcaster, and we’ve not been given a mass of info but we’ll keep you updated as soon as we hear anything!

Source: Collider